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A Chicago Bears fan watches as the Minnesota Vikings kick a field goal in the fourth quarter at Soldier Field on Jan. 8, 2023, in Chicago.

As woeful season ends for Chicago Bears, clock is ticking on team’s potential move to Arlington Heights

January 9, 2023 at 3:20 p.m.

With the Chicago Bears' season mercifully ending Sunday in a 29-13 loss to Minnesota, focus turns to the prospects for building a new stadium in Arlington Heights. The team's abysmal...

Ivy hall, a majority Black-owned dispensary, opened for cannabis sales in Chicago this year. Ivy Hall is the state's first operating social equity cannabis dispensary.

Marijuana sales in Illinois hit a record $1.5 billion in 2022, despite a recent slowdown

January 6, 2023 at 3:26 p.m.

Illinois saw record recreational cannabis sales of $1.55 billion in 2022, a jump of 12% from the previous year — despite delays in opening new stores and some signs the...

Essence Indica sits on the shelf at Ivy Hall.

Rough 2022 for Illinois marijuana industry leads to higher hopes for the new year

January 1, 2023 at 9:52 a.m.

In many ways, 2022 was a wild year for cannabis in Illinois — long-running court fights were resolved, hundreds of new licenses were issued, and hemp-derived derivatives like Delta-8 exploded...

Irina and Kevin McCarthy are depicted along with other victims at a memorial on July 7, 2022, three days after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.

Relatives of child orphaned in Highland Park shooting are in court over guardianship and estate issues

December 21, 2022 at 3:01 p.m.

After 2-year-old Aiden McCarthy's parents were killed in a mass shooting on the 4th of July in Highland Park, the boy, according to his maternal grandfather, asked, "Are mommy and...

Bettors at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney Dec. 16, 2022.

Delay in casino at Hawthorne Race Course is impacting Illinois’ ‘dying’ horse racing industry. But officials say it’s coming.

December 20, 2022 at 6:21 a.m.

More than three years after Hawthorne Race Course was authorized to add casino gambling, not a single card has been dealt nor a coin dropped in the slots. The $400...

A cannabis-themed mural by artist Olusola "Shala" Akintunde on display, April 4, 2022, outside Sports World in Wrigleyville.

New Cannabis Research Institute will study the effects of marijuana and how best to manage it

December 16, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

A new cannabis research center in Chicago will explore the effects of the plant and how best to manage the industry, officials announced Thursday. The Cannabis Research Institute is expected...

Miembros de la Marina de EEUU cargan el féretro en el funeral del veterano Keith Tipsword, el 15 de noviembre de 2022, en el cementerio de Moccasin, Illinois.

Los restos de veterano regresan a casa desde Pearl Harbor

December 7, 2022 at 4:55 p.m.

Elmes pasado, en un cementerio rodeado de campos de maíz en el sur de Illinois una guardia militar ejecutó una salva de honor antes de que los restos del veterano...

U.S. Navy pallbearers carry the casket of World War II veteran Keith Tipsword on Nov. 15, 2022, at Moccasin Cemetery in downstate Moccasin. Tipsword was 22 when he died in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.

Illinois veterans’ remains finally come home from Pearl Harbor after the Navy identifies them using DNA

December 7, 2022 at 10:07 a.m.

In a cemetery amid the cornfields of downstate Illinois last month, a military honor guard fired shots in salute before the remains of World War II veteran Keith Tipsword was...

Phyllis Gary, an intake and referral specialist with the 211 hotline in DuPage County, answers calls on Nov. 17, 2022, in Wheaton. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

New 211 hotline in DuPage County — and soon in Cook and Kendall — is a quick connection for non-emergency health and social services

November 26, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Unsure where to go for help, a homeless single mother named Mary made an important call after she had a baby in 2020. She dialed 211, a social service hotline...

The Young Lincoln statue covered in red paint with the words "COLONIZER" and "LAND BACK!" written underneath in Senn Park in Chicago on Nov. 24, 2022.

Lincoln statue in Chicago’s Edgewater park defaced

November 25, 2022 at 4:54 p.m.

A statue of young Abraham Lincoln was splashed with red paint on Thanksgiving Day with the words "COLONIZER" and "LAND BACK!" written below it in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood. The vandals...

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